In a wilderness and poor area of the Ozarks, the seventeen year-old Rhee Dolly raises her younger siblings Sonny and Ashlee respectively and takes care of her catatonic mother alone, since her father Jessup Dolly is absent in prison. When the local Sheriff Baskin arrives at her poor house, he tells her that her father, who is a meth cook, put their house in collateral for his bail and if he does not appear in court, the family will lose the property. The determined Rhee decides to find her father and walks to the houses of her father s friends, relatives and associates but is advised to stop snooping around. Desperate, Rhee tries to enlist in the army to get US$ 40,000.00 for five years service but she is minor and needs the agreement of her parents. Rhee discovers that her father might have been murdered by his dangerous associates, but she is unable to find his body. When Rhee is hopeless to keep her real estate, she receives visitors that offer her father s bones.